Phillip Roebuck is one of Hampton Roads' most original musicians -- but hold on. That's a grievous understatement. He's one of the most unique singer-songwriters you'll see pretty much anywhere, from sea to shining sea.

The 41-year-old musician has won accolades and admiration far and wide for his freakishly entertaining one-man-band performances. Roebuck straps a bass drum contraption on his back and plays percussion while he thrashes a banjo and sings. His original tunes -- including those on albums "Under the Matchlight" and "Fever Pitch" -- marry backwoods, Southern drones with unbridled rock 'n' roll passion.

All in all, he's one of a kind.

Roebuck grew up in Virginia Beach and that town currently serves as his home base. He's done lots of rambling in recent years, though. Along the way, he's made friends in New York City; Austin, Texas; and London, England.

"I’m pretty excited," said Roebuck, who led the rock band Hollowbodies before launching his solo act. "This is my first headlining show in Virginia Beach in six years. It’s a real homecoming for me."

What's more, Roebuck has assembled a band to perform relatively new songs that he intends to record. His cousin Shae Roebuck, who rocked with Phillip in Hollowbodies, will play guitar. Robb Van de Riet will play bass. Cret Wilson will play drums. Rocky Capizzi will play fiddle.

"I had always been in band, since started playing at age 11," Phillip Roebuck said. "I never intended to play solo. I started doing that for fun. When living in New York City, I would play on the street. What happened was, I found a career with it. I kept getting asked to play. Now, it’s been 12 years."

Still, Roebuck wants to move in a band direction. "I intend to make my next record pretty much what the Jewish Mother set will be, a mixture of solo and band songs. Ideally, I want to start touring with my band."

Roebuck described one of his new tunes, "Somebody Take Me Home," as an audience favorite. Live versions have been posted on YouTube and he gets requests for it even though it touches on some heavy subjects.

"The home I’m talking about is innocence, the idea of love when you were a kid, the idea of happiness," Roebuck said. "There was something pure about it then. As we go through life, it gets distorted. So this is sort of a plea to let me stay in touch with my original idea of love and happiness. It’s a very hard thing to do."

Another new song, the gopsel-flavored, a cappella "We Will All Be Together," is about loss. Roebuck said he's been coming to grips with several deaths including that of a close childhood friend and the loss of Gerard Smith, the late bass player with TV on the Radio, who died in 2011.

"These are my peers, people the same age as me," Roebuck said. "This song emerged from those sort of losses."

In other news, Roebuck said he's been booked as a guest on Ted Talks, a website that features talks by innovators from many different fields. His segment will be part of a series called "Edge of the South."

"It's a huge honor," Roebuck said. "I'll shoot that next month. They're looking for people who are redefining their fields, in science, art, music. It's very validating for me. There are a lot of traditionalist out there, people who think I don’t do it right. It was pretty validating to be recognized like that."